In the last few
\nweeks, over 140,000 pigs have been killed in Romania, pigs contaminated by the
\nAfrican swine fever, an illness that is hard to check as there are no cures.
\nFurthermore, the virus does not develop antibodies and so, no vaccines can be
\nmade. <\/p>\n
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At the moment,
\nthere are about 4.5 million pigs in Romania, as Minister of Agriculture Petre
\nDaea said, and one quarter of the country’s counties are affected by the ASF
\nvirus, but not entirely. There are areas where the virus has been identified
\nonly in one household and other areas where it has infected big farms with tens
\nof thousands of pigs or even one hundred thousand pigs. <\/p>\n
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The euthanasia
\nof pigs has been decided in all cases. The most dramatic case has been reported
\nin Braila County in the south-east, where there is the biggest pig farm in
\nRomania and the second largest in Europe; 140,000 pigs at the afore-mentioned
\nfarm have been gassed and buried, a process estimated to last about one month. <\/p>\n
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The population
\nshould know that there is no other way to deal with the African swine fever but
\neuthanasia, no matter how painful that might be, the Minister made it clear,
\nadding that measures would further be taken to curb the extension of the virus.
\nThe sale of pork has been banned in markets and road disinfection filters have
\nbeen put in place at the entry of counties where outbreaks have been reported. <\/p>\n
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Minister Daea
\nwent on to say that Romania had asked Brussels for help to fight the African
\nswine fever and 12 states have offered support to Romania, a country, which according
\nto Petre Daea, has taken preventive measures against that virus for 5 years
\nnow. <\/p>\n
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However, the
\nright wing opposition and President Klaus Iohannis accuse the Social-Democrat-ALDE
\ngovernment of faulty management of the situation saying that many farmers risk
\ngoing bankrupt. Former prime minister Dacian Ciolos points to an extremely serious crisis that
\nmight destroy the entire pig farming sector in Romania and trigger the laying
\noff of thousands of employees in that sector. <\/p>\n
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Dacian Ciolos
\nsays that when he was minister of agriculture in Romania or European
\nCommissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development he was confronted with such
\nsituations. At that time, it was proved that things could be kept under control
\nif action was taken in due time. Last but not least, he warned that pork
\nexports risked being stopped for a while which would have significant
\nfollow-ups, including the growth of the inflation rate.<\/p>\n
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